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whose meetings he attended with much regularity, and in whose 
proceedings he took a great interest. The personal friend of the 
leading Scottish naturalists of the generation now passing away, Mr 
Cunningham was a most intelligent and earnest amateur student of 
natural science. 
Mr Cunningham was twice married — first, in 1836, to Margaret 
Sheaffe Bagot, sister of the Rev. Daniel Bagot, Dean of Drumore ; 
and secondly, in 1846, to Elizabeth, daughter of Alexander Dunlop 
of Keppoch, and sister of the late Alexander Murray Dunlop of 
Corsock. Mrs Cunningham, four sons, and a daughter survive. 
Dr James Watson was a native of Glasgow, where he was born 
on the 11th of September 1792. He was educated at the High 
School and University of Edinburgh, where he took the degree of 
M.D. in 1812, before he had completed his twentieth year. Early 
in life he received the appointment of assistant-surgeon in the East 
India Company’s service, and resided for nearly twenty years in 
India. On his return from India in 1831 he retired from the 
Company’s service, and shortly afterwards settled in Bath, where he 
soon acquired a very large practice, and was unquestionably the 
leading physician in Bath and the adjacent counties. Amongst his 
other patients must be noted Prince Louis Napoleon after his 
escape from Ham. He was an enthusiastic member of his profes- 
sion, devoting himself to hospital work with untiring zeal, and in 
his later years of comparative leisure bringing the experience of 
his lengthened career to bear on the subjects of hospital administra- 
tion and hospital finance. In private life he was a pleasant and 
instructive companion, with a vigorous intellect, which remained 
unclouded to the last. He died on the 27th of September last, 
having just completed his eighty-sixth year. 
Dr Edward James Shearman was a native of Wington, in 
Somersetshire. The house in which he was bom was next door to 
that of Mrs Hannah More. V ery soon after completing his medical 
studies he settled in Rotherham, where he practised his profession 
for the space of upwards of fifty years. His contributions to medi- 
cal literature have been numerous and varied. The particular 
department to which he appears largely to have devoted his atten- 
